The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-11-24
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New York is to spend $25O,oOo III
Morningside Park.
Berlin is the only German city that
refuses to yelocipedists the freedom OF
the streets.
1t is reported that n being with q
face that is half man and half dog lives
near OIL City. He on it goes upon al
fours.
DIR. J. II. Hall. of Jacksonville, Fla,
has offered to give 100, 900 acres OF pine
land in Georgia to evicted Irish
families.
Many of the principal streets in the
central part of Paris are having tneir
former stone pavements changed 10
wooden ones.
"A bridge ticket given away with
efery suit O. clo'es," is the tempting
bait offered by Chatham street. New
York, clothiers to passing eountrymeh'
1t is estimated that the isco0eries,
Inventions and compounds patented
each wear in the United States and
never amounting to anything cost $o'-
600, 900.
Congregationalism is growing IN
PENNSYLVANIA. 1t has now ninety-nVe
churches in that state and has made
net gain of 80 per cent in church Insnl-
bership since 1880.
English railroads do most of the
carting, collecting, and delivery of
freight at the freighters' door. The
Midland has in constant employment
not less than thirty-two hundred
horses.
A photographer has succeeded in
taking an Instantaneous picture OF the
flight of curved ball thrown by a
$4,000 pitcher. 1t is said to resem-
BILE procession of mebriated cork
screws.
By means of an air gun Prof. c. l..
Mees has found that to drive straws
into pine boards and hickory bark. as
is often done by tornadoes, u velocity
of from 120 to l15 miles an hour IS
necessary.
Missouri has harvested this year
more abundant crops than any either
state in the nation. South Missouri
has still more than half 4 million acres
of good government land awaiting the
coming of settlers.
A German brass fnishcr who com
mitted suicide in New York board
ing house, left note for the lan,ilady,
saying that he was sorry to tronble her.
but the weather compelled him to kill
himself indoors.
A book is now in circulation entitled
ssHe; or, Story of Window Curtains"
attributed to II. Rider iia.gard. That
gentleman teiegrapiis from England
that he chad nothing 10 do with
window curtains.
A bill for pcnsioning workmen ia
Sheir old age in Germany contemplates
a tax of 3 marks per annum on all,
estimated at 7,257 900 marks. Work
men over so years of age when the bill
is passed will be excluded.
Arizona is about to operate dam,
which in magnitude surpasses any
thing in the country. The reservoir
will store $4,000, 100000 gallons of
water for irrigating thousands of acres
of placer and grazing lands.
A steamship agent estimates that
Americans spend 500. .000. 900 year in
Europe. He estimated the number of
Americans who cross the ocean
annually at about lot. 900. The cost of
each one will average say $500.
A large pelican, with bill as long
as a coal-dealer, was captured near
Crete, Neb., last week. 1t measured
six feet from tip to tip of wings, five
feet from the tip of its bill to the tip of
its tail, and weighed twelve pounds.
The Russian adventures known by
the nickname of "The Golden Hand"
has been condemned by the tribunal
of Moscow to transportation for life
to Siberia This extraordinary woman
has been married no less than sixteen
times.
The fish in the Arkansas river
appear to be affected with some strange
disease. Many of them are dying and
rise to the surface, and it is said those
caught with hook or net spoil within
few hours after being taken from the
water.
The temperance women of England
have been getting up jubilee
memorial to the queen in the shape of
petition that the bar-rooms ne closed
on Sunday. 1t now weighs several
hundred pounds and contains 760, 900
signatures.
The people of Siberia buy their milk
frozen and for q convenience it
is allowed to freeze about stick
which comes as handle to carry ii by.
The milkman may leave one chunk or
two chunks, as the case may be, at the
mouse OF MS customers.
A Wisconsin Norwegian, who is un-
doubtedly the most unpoetical person
in the United States, sold his wife for
"a hog and bought her back for calf
and two shotes. If the wife were TO
sell him we should suppose yaliar
dog would be about his market value.
Mrs. Gen. T. R. K. Cobb of Atlanta,
Ga, has the original draft of the con-
federate constitution as it came from
the committee who drafted it. Ii is said
that Photographer Sarony of New
York owns the constitution as finally
adopted by the confederate congress.
Perhaps one of the most primitive OF
independent Kingdoms is tie little
island of johanna. in the Comoro
group. The sultan boards any ship
that may call there, and endeavors To
secure the washing for his wives, while
the prime minister peddles cocoanuts
and bananas.
The floating island on Lake Der
wentwater, England, has again made
its appearance. Ii came to the sur
4oce of the water Il year or two ago
near Lodare after complete snbmersion
for nearly three years. The cause OF
the phenomenon has never been salts
factoriiy explained.
A. Jackson (Mich) Justice of the
peace owns an intelligent spaniel that
is cunning. Whenever he is wander
ing abroad without his muzzle and
spies an officer he .hies himself To the
nearest alley and puts tin can over
his nose. keeping it there until the
policmane passes by and the danger i.
over.
Pennsylvania railroad employees will
hereafter wear cutaway coats, button
ing high at the throat, only one button
being used, in place of the old double.
breasted coats that have been theil
Uniform. They will also hereafter
wear blue caps all the year round,
instead of having white ones in sum.
mer.
1t is said that ones turn to be killed
on the English railways does not come